The Continuing Crisis
• March again gave proof that President Bill hasn't been entirely straight with us. Back on January 20, he said in his Inaugural, "This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we...
...For some people, universal health care is arriving a little late, and at great cost to society...
...The reason: the film would require "graphic" as opposed to "artistic" sex scenes...
...According to the International Labor Organization, slavery continues to be a worldwide problem, with millions still living and working in bondage...
...An Indiana Office of Air Management van was observed belching oily, blue-black smoke by a vigilant citizen in Hammond, who may now be overqualified to perform national service...
...Even in blizzard and avalanche conditions slavery can flourish...
...The cat was never in water for more than eight seconds at a time, and always in the company of five safety officers...
...In other news on the progressive front, California Rep...
...David Koresh, another cult figure, remained holed up in Waco, Texas, evidently unaware that the Republican convention ended some time ago...
...Illegal parking alone in such spots in San Francisco proper costs $275...
...For truly dangerous scenes, a stuffed cat would serve as Sassy's stunt double...
...In some more good news from the Bay Area, the San Francisco International Airport has opened two rooms for smokers, one in the international terminal and the other in the north terminal...
...Cortisone could have made a difference, had it been available...
...Whose policies would he subscribe to today...
...Peter the Great (the czar, not the ABC anchor) was chosen in a recent poll as Russia's greatest ruler ever, far ahead of Lenin, Stalin, and McHale Gorbachev...
...Gorbachev on March 21 declared his willingness to replace Mr...
...Water scenes that appear dangerous in the movie were actually filmed in a heated pool, with a Jacuzzi creating the illusion of fast water...
...In my opinion, you don't connect motherhood or womanhood to something as awesome as this machine," said Warden Charlie Jones, who wants the chair to be called just that and nothing else...
...Ronald Dellums is ready to mount the barricades to keep the Alameda Naval Air Station and other facilities in his militarized district from closing...
...One such is Sassy, the Siamese cat currently appearing in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey...
...In Santa Monica, California, Judge Edward Davenport, who helped author the state's drunk-driving law, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge after his DWI arrest...
...Reinventing government remains a noble goal...
...The Clinton boom ended before it sounded for Sarah Phillips, the intrepid designer of Hillary's Inaugural gown who saw her financial backer pull out just as she was to launch her fall collection, leaving her fledgling business a few million dollars short...
...In the great state of Russia, where winter never responds to force, President Boris Yeltsin schemed to avoid the fates of Aleksandr Kerensky and Richard Nixon...
...Nervous East house reminded participants of Webster-Calhoun...
...Ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the snail saga was shown at a recent festival at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts...
...The discussion in the prints for build-it-yourself coffins to clients willing to supply labor and materials...
...Actually, in Clinton's program I see elements I like a lot," he told the New York Times—thus confirming Tuscaloosa, Alabama resident Doris Hunter in her suspicions...
...Hoping to improve his position in future polls, Mr...
...In Honolulu, Hawaii, the state house of representatives passed a bill requiring stores to place warning labels on war toys on the grounds that such playthings increase "anger and violence" in children...
...We're becoming a U.S.S.A...
...Yeltsin and on the following day called on President Clinton and the U.S...
...We're moving toward socialism...
...At least her working conditions would meet ILO standards...
...Miss Kim Basinger, the actress, is under fire for backing out of her starring role in Boxing Helena...
...But there is much left to be done...
...Al Carpenter of Alhambra, California, who for $9.95 provides blueEuropeans wondered why he did not include Radio Free Europe in his remarks...
...Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders offered confirmation of her own, likening an unaborted welfare baby to a "healthy slave" that in turn keeps poor people enslaved...
...Hollywood could do its part, too...
...I think he's a big joke," she told the Birmingham Post-Herald when asked about Clinton...
...Not so the governor of Guam, Joseph Ada, who was "shocked and disappointed" that the naval air station on his island wasn't on the Pentagon's list of base closures...
...Go figure...
...Smoking anywhere else on the premises carries an automatic $lN fine, and in the case of handicapped parking zones the penalty may be even higher...
...We got into a philosophical debate about why we are the kind of people we are in terms of violence," the bill's sponsor, Rep...
...Wojciech Jaruzelski expressed remorse of sorts for having imposed martial law on the country in late 1981, and though no longer a card-carrying Communist he confessed that he still adheres to "the values of the left...
...On Blizzard Sunday, March 14, he did show his face to the world as he and the missus trundled across the Arctic freeze to church...
...Where does he get off...
...But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring...
...An even more moving performance was given by the star of Snail's Pace, a four-minute short from New Zealand that follows a snail making its way toward a case of lettuce...
...Congress to extend funding for Radio Liberty...
...Robert Bunda, explained...
...But, then, they don't call it the Pacific for nothing...
...If his words forced anything this winter it was even deeper winter, as in the Great Blizzard of '93, which pounded, buried, and blanketed the east from Florida to Maine and kept Bill holed up in the White House playing national weatherman and trying to get through to FEMA...
...Oscar Night came and went, dispensing honors to stars and starlets of all artistic and graphic stripes, but forgetting to recognize the screen's smallest creatures...
...Adolf Hitler suffered from an arterial disease that reduced blood flow to his brain...
...Hillary, though, kept her face buried in her coat, much to the relief of most American men, not to mention Warren Christopher, who'd been hoping for a gesture that would improve relations with Iran...
...Shin Kanemaru, 78, the Clark Clifford of the Liberal Democratic Party now luxuriating in a seven-by-seven cell in the Tokyo Detention Center...
...He could spare his flock much grief by consulting with Mr...
...According to Fritz Redlich of the UCLA School of Medicine, Mr...
...A Soviet spending program from the 1960s underscored the importance of infrastructure investment when French officials found $200,000 that had been buried under a highway near Grenoble by KGB officials, for use in the event of WWIII...
...The Rev...
...In Warsaw, Poland, retired Gen...
...WP...
...In Atmore, Alabama, the electric chair at the Holman Correctional Facility, heretofore known as "Yellow Mama," is to be repainted and the nickname discarded...
...None dare call it extortion...
...One week after their February 24 rescue, one of the five skiers lost for four days in the Aspen Rockies accused her male companion of treating her like a slave during the ordeal, though oddly enough he did so only after she proved too weak to carry her pack...
...As punishment, her tormentor may be required to wear one of those white anti-harassment ribbons that fraternity boys nationwide were being urged to sport as they left for spring break...
...In the film, Helena is rescued from a car crash by a doctor who amputates her injured legs and healthy arms and keeps her as a hostage in a box, hoping she will fall in love with him...
...In Tokyo, the premium that Japan places on a high savings rate was driven home when investigators seized $50 million in cash and securities and hundreds of pounds of gold from the home and office of the Hon...
Vol. 26 • May 1993 • No. 5
